Tinubu Cabinet: There Will Be More Technocrats Than Mediocres ( Exclusive)

The 16th President of Nigeria, the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, is already tinkering with the idea as to  how he  is going to  have the best technocrats to birth new Nigeria.

Before 29 May 2023 he would have completed the list of  men and women picked  on merit to impliment his progressive blueprint.

Already he has penciled down Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila,  as his Chief of Staff.

Also believed to be on his list  are his former Commissioner for Finance, Wale Edun and the Kebbi State Governor, Atiku Bagudu, among other familiar faces currently being identified for different roles.

A dependable source told newspot that Tinubu is not likely to consider people that are lousy and mediocres. “Some who are playing to the gallery nos will be disappointed. ”

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Newspot also learned from the grapevine that the Governor of Kaduna Nasir  El Rufai is being considered for the post of Secretary to the Government of the Federation . What is playing for him the source said was his pedigree of no nonsense man when he was the Minister of the  Federal Capital Territory Abuja

Meanwhile renowned playwright and popular Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has warned Tinubu against failing to restructure the country, saying it was the only way out of the current national ordeal.

Soyinka, who spoke in some of the snippets released of his exclusive interview with Channels Television, further maintained that Nigerians would never stop demanding restructuring, hence, it was the way to go.However, in readiness for his administration’s take-off next month,

It was gathered that Gbajabiamila, has already begun to discharge the duties of the chief of staff to Tinubu, having unofficially resumed with him in France, with a view to working out processes and plans, including calendarising his activities.

“He has technically resumed with him in Paris, and they are trying to work out process and plans,” an insider disclosed that the president-elect was already looking at building national security and economic team.According to the source, Tinubu has appointed Edu and Bagudu into his economic team, which he considered a critical sector requiring attention immediately he assumes office.

The source hinted thus: “Wale is supposed to be the coordinator of the economy, either as Finance Minister or the CBN governor. It is not clear yet what his plans are for Bagudu. But he has also been penciled in and is going to be operating at a very high and serious level in the administration.”Meanwhile, Soyinka, has insisted that if Tinubu wanted to succeed as president and given the state of the country, then, there would be no alternative to restructuring, an idea Tinubu also pushed as opposition and progressive before his party gained power.For years, there have been several calls for restructuring in Africa’s most populous nation, including the demand for the establishment of multi-level policing to curb Nigeria’s rising crime rate.